In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...
Abstract. Traditional retrieval models assume that query terms are independent and rank documents primarily based on various term weighting strategies including TF-IDF and document...
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
We propose a real-time retrieval method for document images in various languages. In this method, queries are images of documents captured by a web-camera. The document images cor...